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Coding Rules and Method for Obtaining Information for Tables 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, and 12.6\u003cbr\u003e Case References\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732905275735,"sku":"9780226312477","price":26.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226312477.jpg?v=1719998894"},{"product_id":"sidereus-nuncius-or-the-sidereal-messenger-9780226320090","title":"Sidereus Nuncius or The Sidereal Messenger","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732905406807,"sku":"9780226320090","price":16.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226320090.jpg?v=1719998895"},{"product_id":"ambiguities-of-domination-9780226333373","title":"Ambiguities of Domination","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTreating rhetoric and symbols as central rather than peripheral to politics, Lisa Wedeen's groundbreaking book offers a compelling counterargument to those who insist that politics is primarily about material interests and the groups advocating for them. 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A creative linking of landscape and radicalism.\" * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\"Through interpretive brilliance and gorgeously crafted prose, Daegan Miller's \u003ci\u003eThis Radical Land: A Natural History of Dissent\u003c\/i\u003e rescues this sense of environmental awe from excessive skepticism. . . . One of the most elegant and insightful examples of environmental writing I've seen in many, many years.\" * Pacific Standard *\u003cbr\u003e\"Nuanced, provocative, and immensely learned. . . . We would do well, through the conversation started here by Miller, to find the sparks of 'radicalism' in their relations with nature, and use those sparks to build our world.\"\u003cbr\u003e   * Nature Plants *\u003cbr\u003e\"Seeing nature as wild, rather than curated wilderness or resource for the taking, gave Miller’s characters opportunities to chart alternate paths for the nation. If they can do it, Miller implies, why can’t we? . . .  Miller delights in his sources, and readers will feel that they are walking beside him as he paces off the seven feet of one of Thoreau’s maps and opens the heavy covers of the Union Pacific’s promotional book of photos. He targets his research precisely. Long lists of sources are not cited merely for the sake of impressive footnotes. At times, metaphor does more of his argument’s work than evidence, but that is largely due to Miller’s investment in his writing. He wants to woo his readers into following his intuitive leaps from deeply considered theory and historiography to the hard ground of a Utah rail bed.\" -- Flannery Burke * Environmental History *\u003cbr\u003e\"Drawing on superb scholarly detective work, \u003ci\u003eThis Radical Land\u003c\/i\u003e tells fascinating stories about the history of our ties to the land that give us an alternative to viewing natural spaces as either a resource to exploit or a wilderness museum for the privileged. Miller peels back the history to reveal that, however ignored, Americans have always resisted the exploitation of nature. Perhaps his more nuanced environmental history will inspire those today who, continuing the mute protest of the witness tree, would pull the planet back from the brink of death.\" -- Richard Higgins, author of Thoreau and the Language of Trees\u003cbr\u003e\"Daegan Miller rekindles a legacy of environmental dissent. The ideas and landscapes of nineteenth-century 'countermoderns' are signposts, still legible, to alternative futures. This book bears witness like a burning bush.\" -- Jared Farmer, author of Trees in Paradise: A California History\u003cbr\u003e\"Remarkable. . . . All told, Miller has produced a wonderful work, not just of environmental history, but also of nature writing in its highest form. This is a book worth reading.\"  * Environmental History *\u003cbr\u003e\"Daegan Miller presents four essays rooted in landscapes of nineteenth-century America o make the case that there have always been thinkers and actors for whom nature had a higher purpose than capitalist greed. Trees--characterized as \"the past's oldest witness\" (from the book's first sentence)--play a central role throughout \u003ci\u003eThis Radical Land: A Natural History of America Dissent\u003c\/i\u003e. 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Remarkably linking form to reaction, judgment, and transformation, it is essential reading for anyone interested in art’s capacity to profoundly touch us and to partake in shaping our world.” -- Amir Eshel, author of Poetic Thinking Today\u003cbr\u003e“Klinger’s \u003ci\u003eTheory of Form \u003c\/i\u003ecombines astute philosophical thought with a fascinating close analysis of Richter’s practice, yielding a new understanding of historical time and contemporaneity. 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Far from challenging genetic determinism, epigenetic pregnancy research ‘advances a model of human inheritance and development in which the wider social and physical environment can be seen as heritable and as determinant of future biomedical outcomes.’ Constructions of epigenetics as bridging the gap between social and biological processes resonate widely in STS and gender studies, even among critical scholars; Richardson’s book is a thought-provoking intervention.” * Isis *\u003cbr\u003e“Richardson’s book is rigorous, entertaining, informative, and politically important.” * Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal *\u003cbr\u003e“Academically robust and meticulously researched, \u003ci\u003eThe Maternal Imprint\u003c\/i\u003e is a pleasurable and engaging read that will appeal to a wide audience, including the public and undergraduate students.” * Childhood in the Past *\u003cbr\u003e\"A rich, elegantly argued analysis of the long history of scientific and popular thinking about 'maternal effects' on the fetuses that women gestate, full of well-articulated plunges into the archives of scientific texts and journals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This is an important, beautifully researched, and well-written book by an author whose prior works have literally changed their fields.\" -- Rayna Rapp, New York University\u003cbr\u003e\"Richardson reveals that epigenetics is not just the newest cutting-edge, pro-social, plasticity-favoring, anti-genetic, and anti-reductionist field to emerge from modern molecular genetics. Rather, it is also the vector of newly problematic images and social roles that limit women and diminish the status of pregnancy and motherhood, in ways that are disturbingly similar to nineteenth-century societal notions of women's roles. Richardson's exquisitely documented arguments will be compelling to all with an interest in the complex interface of science and society.\" -- Michael J. 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